Neo-Freud

3-17-06
For decades, Freudian concepts such as ego, id and repressed desires dominated psychology and psychiatry’s attempts to cure mental illnesses. But better understanding of brain chemistrygradually replaced this model with a biological explanation of how the mind arises from neuronal activity. The latest attempts to piece together diverse neurological findings, however, are leading to a chemical framework of the mind that validates the general sketch Freud made almost a century ago. A growing group of scientists are eager to reconcile neurology and psychiatry into a unified theory. Perhaps trying to put new wine into old wineskins though.